Liberal Dictionary English Dictionary
adjective
- deserving to be despised, or regarded with distaste, disgust, or disdain; contemptible: He was a mean, despicable man, who treated his wife and children badly.
adjective
- worthy of being despised; contemptible; mean
1550s, from Late Latin despicabilis, from Latin despicari “despise, disdain, look down on,” from de- “down” (see de-) + spicare, variant of specere “to look” (see scope (n.1)).